Truth time: The average American gains about a pound between Halloween and New Year's, according to a New England Journal of Medicine study. While a pound or two doesn't sound like a lot, if you put on just two pounds a year over the course of 10 years, you'll be up 20 pounds—something that experts refer to as "creeping obesity."

Proven effective by scientific research and presented here by Dr. Dharma Singh Khalsa and Cameron Stauth, the practice of Medical Meditation revolutionizes the healing process. By balancing and regenerating the body's ethereal and physical energies through simple meditations, Medical Meditation unites the mind, body, and spirit into a powerful triad.

The Mindful Meals Diet uncovers the reasons why diets don't work - ancient genetic food drives and unhealthy eating habits. The genes that permitted our ancestors to survive, during the period when calories were scarce, motivated them to prefer high calorie fats, sweets and more calories. These same 'obesity' genes are out of sync with present day needs, but still drive our food preferences.

Healthy Habits™ is a step-by-step program designed to help you get and stay slim by combining psychology, behavior modification, Neuro- Linguistic Programming along with the American Dietetic Association's eating guide. Healthy Habits™ will help you uncover hidden reasons that may have prevented you from losing weight in the past.

The Perricone Weight-Loss Diet delivers a solid program that will melt away the pounds–while maintaining toned skin and healthy muscle mass. Dr. Perricone proves once again that chronic, subclinical inflammation is not only responsible for accelerated aging, wrinkles, and a host of degenerative diseases, it is at the basis of our current obesity epidemic. If you need to lose weight, this is the book!

The preceding recommended reading materials contain valuable information; however, they are MOST helpful when combined with the support of your Psychologist or qualified mental health care professional.